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[title] => My City
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[bodytext] => Here the sun sets beyond my walls Leaving the will of darkness to fall To wrap its long arms around me And squeeze the struggling life Out of each drop of sunset light Here the streetlights are afraid to shine Through the midnight's shimmering rain It flows down the cold steep metal roofs Dented, they too have felt the pain Here enough sorrow has spread and molded Into the cloaks of grief I see you dawn As you head to the morning's funeral So for each life, my bell tolls for your loss Here my tears stream down with the morning drizzle Slipping over the boarded windows Collecting in the tread of your footprint and splashing with the carriage train Here it continues to the cobblestone street And runs to the grate in the gutter To flow back into the misty ocean Then come back with the next morning's rain Another tear wasted again So I'll try again tomorrow To show my grief and pain My tears will stream once again Down the cheek of a passerby Hopefully they will arch their face to the sky And wonder why They are crying [comments] => 0 [counter] => 152 [topic] => 31 [informant] => SoulBonder [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => StoryPoetry )
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